Forever and A Day&colon; Archiving Performa

This day-long poses the challenge of imagining a comprehensive performance archive to a diverse panel of artists, activists, digital technology experts, and scholars. Participants propose archival strategies—innovative digital platforms, designs, and software, and syllabi—concluding with an open-format discussion on how best to archive ​Performa's collection, given the context of performance art’s soaring cultural affirmation in recent years, as well as Performa’s twelve-year history.

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Artists, archivists, scholars, digital technology experts, and curators contribute strategies for archiving the past decade of performance art in its ascending cultural prominence in this day-long symposium, culminating in an interactive panel regarding how best to archive specific case studies from the Performa Archive.